Committee service

House of Representatives Standing: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 29.5.96 to 31.8.98; Environment, Recreation and the Arts from 30.5.96 to 31.8.98; Environment and Heritage from 9.2.06 to 17.10.07; Health and Ageing from 9.2.06 to 17.10.07; Selection from 30.9.10 to 23.5.11 and from 25.5.11 to 5.8.13; House from 25.10.10 to 5.8.13.

Joint Statutory: Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund from 18.6.96 (Chair from 4.6.97) to 31.8.98.

Military Service

Electorate

Description: rural.

Location: far north Queensland; it includes the centres of Aurukun, Bamaga, Cooktown, Hope Vale, Kowanyama, Kuranda, Lockhart River, Mossman, Pormpuraaw, Port Douglas and Weipa, and parts of Cairns. It also includes the Torres Strait Islands.